Mark Reinhold wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Jul 2008 09:45:42 -0600, David Moyer <davmoy@world.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Apple Sells One Million iPhone 3Gs in First Weekend
>>
>> CUPERTINO, California‹July 14, 2008‹Apple today announced it sold its
>> one millionth iPhone? 3G on Sunday, just three days after its launch on
>> Friday, July 11. iPhone 3G is now available in 21 countries‹Australia,
>> Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Hong Kong, Ireland,
>> Italy, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Spain,
>> Sweden, Switzerland, UK and the US‹and will go on sale in France on July
> Bloomberg says 45,000 which seems to be less.

I read one million, but it's very misleading. The original iPhone sold
700K units the first weekend (starting at 6:00 p.m.) in the U.S. only.
Pretty impressive.

The 3G iphone sold 1 million units, starting at 8:00 a.m. Friday, in 21
countries. So in ten more hours, they sold about 40% more units than the
original iPhone, but in 2100% the number of countries.

What this means is that cellular phone customers understand that there
are other 3G handsets that are competitive with the iPhone. Of course it
could also mean that potential customers are waiting for a price cut
prior to purchasing, waiting for all the early-adopters to both pay more
and to get any bugs resolved.